Whip-socket fastening



E. GHAMBERLIN.

Whip-Socket.

Patefited'Ang; 23. 1864.

NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WHIP-SOCKET FASTENING.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 43,896. dated August 23, 1864.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, EDWIN GHAMBERLIN, of Lansingburg, in the county of Rensselaer and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Vhip-Socket Fastening, of which the following is a full and exact description, reference being had to the annexed dsawings.

My principal object in'making this invention has been to produce a cheap and durable whip-socket fastening which can be made and sold as a distinct and complete article of manufacture, and which shall be so constructed tiat by means of two of them of proper size an ordinary whip-socket can be conveniently fastened in a neat and firm manner to and readily detached from the upright end bar of the frame, which is ordinarily inclosed in the leather-covered dash of a carriage or other vehicle without materially disfiguring or weakening the dash, the said fastenings being also capable of securing a whip-socket to abar or rod ofsuitable size and shape in the end railing ot' a driver's seat or other part of a. sleigh or carriage.

In the drawings hereto annexed, Figure 1 represents a whip-socket secured to a rod or bar in one end ot'a leather-covered carriage dash by means of two varieties of my improved whip-socket t'astenings. Fig. 2 shows a whipsocket fastened at its upper end to a rod or bar in the railing at the end, of the drivers seat ofa carriage by means of another modification ofmy said improved whip-socket fastening. Fig. 3 is a plan of the upper whip-socket fastening, and Fig.4, a plan ot'the loweroiie,shown in Fig. 1, with a section in each figure of the partsofthewhipsocket and dashtowhich those 1 fastenings are applied. Fig. 5 is a plan of the upper whip-socket fastening, (shown in Fig.2,) with sections of the parts of the rod and whipsockct to which that fastening is attached in Fig. 2.

Fig. 6 is a longitudinal section of an other modification orvariety of my improved whip-socket fastening, and the same letters of reference indicate like parts in the various 4 figures. My invention consists in so combining in a l detachable whip-socket fastening jaws A A, i

for embracing, clamping, or gripping a rod or bar, X, in the end of a covered dash or other part of a vehicle, and a device, B B, for receiving and clasping or holding a whip-socket, W, that when thejaws A A of two of the said whip-socket fastenings, of suitable size and shape, are made to embrace at suitable distancesapart a rod or bar, X, and a whipsocket, V, is then inserted in the clamps or holders B B of those two fastenings, substantially as shown by the annexed drawings in Fig. 1, the whip-socket will thereupon be firmly secured to the said rod or bar by means of the said combined whip-socketholders B B and rod-grippingjaws A A of the two fastenings, and at the same time in such manner that the whip-socket can be readily removed from the fastenings and the latter freely drtached from the bar or rod whenever this shall be desirable.

In thus combining two rod-gripping jaws, A A, and a whip-socket clamp or holder, B

B, I adopt any suitable form and construction, several modifications being shown by Figs. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 of the annexed drawings but I generally prefer to employ the construction represented in Fig. 4, Fig. 6, or 1 Fig. 3, wherein the jaws A A and clamp B B are made in two parts,of iron, steel, malleable castiron, or other suitable material,and secured together by a pivot, 0, Fig. 3, or by a screw, (1, Fig.6, or by a screw-bolt, c, and thumb nut,f, Fig. 4, although I sometimes make thejaws A A and clamp or whip-socket holder B B all in one elastic piece of metal, held together by a screw-bolt, g, and thumbnut, h, as shown in Fig. 5.

What I claim as new and of my invention,

4 and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-

A whip-socket fastening having a clamp or holder, B B, for a whip-socket, combined with jaws A A, for embracing or gripping a bar or rod in a covered dash or other part of a carriage or other vehicle, substantially as herein EDW'IN CHAMBERLIN. 

